Mobile Safari/ iPhone Mail.app HTML design issues: prevent autolinking and styling auto-links (dates, addresses, etc.)

Question

i am trying to design an HTML e-mail that should also look good when it is read on mobile devices. My biggest problems are with the iPhone (iOS 4): its mostly undocumented \

Answer 1

Creating link tag that doesn't do anything seems to be the best option for date and address at least:

July 18, 2014

You can use

for phone numbers ONLY and it will disable phone links for all; This may not what you want to do.

If you don't use this meta tag, you can style with CSS to change the link color as desired. and use above code ( tag) for phone numbers that you don't want to link.